Rainy Miller Joseph, What Have You Done?

Label / Fixed Abode
Category / Experimental, Electronic
Code / FIX011V

Trading '808s...'-era Ye for Jim White, Preston's Rainy Miller inaugurates his "Northern Gothic" aesthetic on 'Joseph...', blurring subtle 'ardkore memories with etherised chorals, Jandek guitars and ragged industrial noise. Next level gear - properly crucial listening if yr into anything from Rabit and Space Afrika to Alliyah Enyo and Third Eye Foundation. You've got to respect the ambition. It would have been easy for Miller to have followed 2022's zeitgeist-sniping 'Desquamation (Fire, Burn. Nobody)' with another vinegary dip of self-aware industrial drill and smokestack ambience, but he went back to the drawing board instead, taking five years to develop an even stronger, even more politically incisive narrative. His inspiration for 'Joseph...' is Andrew Douglas's 'Searching For the Wrong-Eyed Jesus', a 2003 documentary that follows alt-country don Jim White through the USA's neglected south, trailing thru gas stations, truck stops, scrapyards and churches to figure out the connection between evangelical Christianity and country music. Sensing parallels between the abandoned, emotionally-charged landscape and his own surroundings, Miller formulated a sonic reaction - not exactly his own take on dusty country music but a similarly open-hearted reflection of Preston's grim day-to-day reality.

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